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leuchæmia

leuchæmia is the obsolete form of leukemia.

Meaning of leukemia

Noun

leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)

  1. Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
    • The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.

Questions about leuchæmia

What is leuchæmia the obsolete form of?
Leuchæmia is the obsolete form of leukemia.

Words near leuchæmia in the dictionary

  1. Leuchars
  2. leuchemia
  3. leuchemias
  4. leuchtenbergite
  5. leuchtenbergites
  6. leuchæmia
  7. leucic acid
  8. leucin
  9. leucinal
  10. leucinamide
  11. leucine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leuchæmia (page history and authors); leukemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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